"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." (Matthew 7:15)

"And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:11)

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1)

We were warned, by the Lord Jesus Christ, that many false prophets would rise and deceive many. Over the years we have seen these deceivers come and go.

The "hottest" money grabbing deceiver is Benny Hinn. (labeled by one preacher as "Benny the Chicken") Benny waves his arms and bunches of people fall over backward. It does not matter that no preachers in the Bible ever did this. Of course, Benny has his "catchers" in place to catch the "fallers".

Benny recently brought his act to Las Vegas, Nevada. This is an appropriate place for Hinn's show. It proves that all of the suckers in Vegas are not just playing the slots and black jack! Many have fallen for Benny's shenanigans. All Bible rejectors!

In an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Przybys writes, The only thing missing is a giant beach ball being battered indiscriminately bout the arena floor. It was just that sort of rock concert ambiance that filled the Thomas & Mack Center last week when evangelist Benny Hinn brought his two-day Miracle Crusade to Las Vegas."

At one point in Benny's show he said, "the city of Las Vegas will never be the same again." Oh yeah? Have any of the casinos closed? Have the street prostutues quit walking the streets. Have the tavern and liquor store owners folded up and started attending a good Bible believing church?

Are the people who heard Benny, in that great hall, now out going door to door, soul winning? Ha! Don't make us laugh! The Bible says: "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." (Ephesians 5:11) You can be sure, Las Vegas is the same old sin city as well as all the other places Benny goes.

In an article title "Benny Hinn And Necromancy (Talking to the Dead), Joseph R. Chambers writes: "Benny Hinn is an admitted necromancer. Judge for yourself, by Hinn's own account of when the "anointing" on his ministry "doubled" whether or not this "anointing" is from the Holy Spirit or from contact with evil spirits posing as dead people like Elijah and Kathryn Kuhlman.

The Bible states clearly that necromancy, talking to the dead (actually evil spirits), is an abomination to God: "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD. . ." (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)

Saul was judged by God for trying to bring up the spirit of Samuel, the only time in history that God permitted this for his own purposes. Read this entire account from the lips of Benny Hinn. There are only three possibilities. Either he actually had these experiences, which is impossible according to Scripture; or he made them up out of his own imagination, in which case he is a lair and needs to repent; or these were actual demonic encounters.

Even if this account is a mixture of imagination and demonization, ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THE COUNTERFEIT ANOINTING OF BENNY HINN, and the rest of the Third Wave."

Joseph R. Chambers goes on to say: "Look at these statements made by Mr. Hinn at the Blaisdale Arena, Honolulu, HI, on February 28, 1997."

"I've know moments of such anointings, it's really hard for me to describe those moments. I've known moments when I've not only felt the presence of God, I've smelled the presence of God. I did this morning right here. And others around me smelled the fragrance of frankincense. In Detroit, Michigan, so great was the presence of God, the entire building filled up with a mist and we began to breathe in and smell it, frankincense, presence of the Lord. Steve Brock, you smelled it

with me and Ron . . . I've seen the presence of God. I've not only felt it it. I've not only smelled it. I've seen it with my own eyes."

"He's more real to me than my own children. Do you know something? That is difficult for me to explain I'm just gonna tell you. Whenever I talk to Him I see HIm. I can tell you what He wears, I can tell you what color He has on. I've seen that so many times. I'm talking about regular. When I talk to the Lord at times I see Him wearing a, a, a, often most times I'd see Him blue, beautiful, almost like a silkish-looking garment."

"I've seen Him at times when just pure white altogether. You say, `When do you see Him?' I don't know, I just see Him. And often when I see Him, I now whether He is pleased with me or displeased with me. There's been times when I see Him with a smile. Other times I've seen Him with a very serious look. Other times I couldn't really tell it's almost like a mist around His face I couldn't tell."

"I don't understand why He allows me to see that. But I do. And He speaks to me so clearly. He tells me to say things and do things and pray even for things. You know, I ask Him questions that most people probably don't ask Him. Example, I said, `Lord, show my future. Actually, I had a vision."

"I saw myself as an old man with white hair and I had a dark suit on with stripes, and my girls . . . thirties, old thirties, and they had beautiful curly hair. They looked like Dino's wife. What's her name? Dino's wife? Gary's sister? Sharon. I said, `Lord, how long will I live?' He told me, He said, `Sixty-nine. If you take care of yourself, seventy-three.' So I want to buy a treadmill. I've asked Him these kind of things. I've asked him things about people."

"This recently. I'm not talking about a long time ago. He was about six feet two. Old man. Had a beard. White-like Norvelles jacket. Glistening white beard. His face was somewhat thin. But, very bold! Eyes - crystal blue. He had on a white garment; whiter than my shirt could ever get. On his head was a shawl, like a, like a covering. He looked like a priest. Every part of him glistened like crystal."

"And I spoke out and I said, `Lord, who is this man I see?' I know you may, you may think I lost my mind, but the Lord said, `Elijah, the prophet~' I even heard the Lord say that to me you know when that happened? That happened days before the anointing on my life doubled. Literally, the ministries' anointing doubled after that."

"I've never shared this, I've been scared people are going to think he's gone crazy! And, it happened twice! Two nights; one and the next day. And right after that, the anointing on this ministry doubled. Now, I don't understand why the Lord allowed me to see that. I've not just seen angels; I've seen saints. Can I tell you? This might even shock you a little more. The Lord gave me a vision of Kathryn Kuhlman sitting with what seemed to be a group of people . . . and every one of them seemed to be urging me to pray."

"Now, I know this sounds crazy, but it's all right. I don't mind crazy because I like what I saw . . . I was in prayer at, uh, least hours . . . At least fifty to seventy of them sitting in a group, and they were saying to me, `Pray! Ask God to give you a healing ministry that will touch the world! And suddenly, I heard Kathryn's voice and suddenly there she was its crystal clear. And she in her beautiful smile, she said, `Ask! We're waiting for you to ask! We're praying with you to ask!' And the vision disappeared."

"And suddenly I said `Lord!' And I asked. A week later the anointing hit my life. I believe the saints in Heaven urge us to pray. Urge us to do it! Do you know why I believe it? It's in the Bible! You say, `Show it to me.' Jesus saw Moses and Elijah who came to talk to Him about His passion on the cross!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is way more than what you know about God! And the reason I've telling you all of this? The Lord said to me only a few days ago. He said, `You're about to come to a new level. Get ready!' And I'm already feeling the rumblings in the heavenlies. Somebody is about to talk to me again. Something is about to happen again. I don't know what it is. I'm so excited, I feel butterflies in my tummy. I feel something."

"I've had three prophets lately, absolutely people that know the voice of God that have said to me, `You're about to walk into a new inheritance in the spirit.' I don't know what it is, when it is, but it's coming. And tonight, the Lord is putting it upon my heart to pray for you that you should walk into a new inheritance in the Holy Ghost." (Excerpted from message presented at the Blaisdale Arena, Honolulu, HI, 2/28/97).

Notice that he stated clearly that he had seen saints ("dead saints" and that they talked to him, gave him instructions, and told him they were paying for him. This is clearly necromancy or communication with the dead. He went further to state that his necromancy was Biblically supported by Jesus Christ's experience on the Mount of Transfiguration when Moses and Elijah talked to the Lord.

Watch carefully men such as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, and Paul Crouch, etc. Men in error always continue to descend into deeper and deeper error. It's the natural evolution of evil and Satan's kingdom. The whole theory of evolution is a satanic contrast of God's truth and revelation. Truth is progressive and uplifting, while evolution is regressive and destructive.

The following are quotes from Benny and "birds" of his feather. (copied from various scores) (Rev. 18:2)

Benny Hinn

A. God has a body, soul and spirit. B. Jesus has a body, soul and spirit. C. Holy Spirit has a body, soul and spirit. (Benny Hinn, Benny Hinn broadcast, recorded 10/13/90)

Christians are little messiahs. Christians

are little gods. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon (TBN), recorded November 1990). Jesus at His death became one with Satan. (Benny Hinn, Benny Hinn broadcast, recorded 12/15/90).

Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam and complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could fly like a bird. B. Adam could swim underwater and breath like a fish. Adam went to the moon. Adam walked on Water. Adam was a super being. He was the first superman that lived. Adam had dominion over the sun, moon and stars. Christians do not have Christ in their hearts. Sow a big seed, when you confess it, you are activating the supernatural forces of God. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon (TBN), recorded November 1990)

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon (TBN), recorded 4/21/91). Wants to use Holy Ghost machine gun to kill Heresy Hunters. (Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon (TBN), 11/8/90.

Morris Cerullo

Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself? . . . And when we stand up here, brother, you've not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus. (Morris Cerullo, "The End Time Manifestation of the Sons of God," Morris Cerullo World Evangelism tape 1).

Morris Cerullo claims he was led out of a Jewish orphanage by two angelic beings; transported to heaven for a face-to-face meeting with God; and told he would be capable of revealing the future. (Cerullo, The Miracle Book, ix; and 7 Point World Evangelism and You (pamphlet), 4.; Cerullo, The Miracle Book, xi.; Faithful, Anointed Servant, Morris Cerullo.")

Claiming that God was directly speaking through him, Cerullo uttered, "Would you surrender your pocketbooks unto Me, saith God, and let me be the Lord of your pocketbooks . . . Yea, so be thou obedient unto my voice." (Morris Cerullo, "A Word from God at the Deeper Life World Conference," Deeper Life, March 1982, 15.)

Kenneth Copeland

Faith is a Force (like Starwars). (Kenneth Copeland, Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0601, Tape #1) God did not create the world out of nothing, He used the Force of His Faith. (Kenneth Copeland, Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0610, Tape #1)

Adam was not subordinate to God. (Kenneth Copeland, Following the Faith of Abraham, Tape #01-3001) God and Adam looked exactly alike. (Kenneth Copeland, The Authority of the IV; Tape #01-0304)

Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God". (Kenneth Copeland, NOW WE ARE IN CHRIST JESUS (Ft. Worth, TX: Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1980, 24) God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself . . . He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even". (Kenneth Copeland, "Following the Faith of Abraham," tape 01-3001, n.d.).

Faith is God's source of power. (Kenneth Copeland, Freedom From Fear, 1983. p. 12. emphasis original) You don't have a god in you, you are one. (Kenneth Copeland, "The Force Of Love" tape #02-0028). Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in Myself. We are Spirit, saith the Lord. (Kenneth Copeland, "Believer's Voice of Victory", Feb. 1987, p. 9)

I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he [Jesus] says, "I am," I just smile and say, "Yes, I Am, too!" (Kenneth Copeland, "Believer's Voice of Victory" broadcast on TBN, recorded 7/9/87).

God is the biggest failure in the Bible . . . the reason you've never thought that is because He never said He was one". (Kenneth Copeland, "Praise-a'thon", broadcast on TBN, recorded 1988). God is a being that stands somewhere around 6'2", 6'". (Kenneth Copeland, "Following the Faith of Abraham" tape #01-3001).

Oral Roberts

Oral Roberts, you may recall, is the man who claimed that Jesus told him God had chosen him to find an effective treatment for cancer. In a lengthy appeal, Roberts avowed that the Lord told him, "I would not have had you and your partners build the 20- story research tower unless I was going to give you a plan that will attack cancer." Roberts then said that Jesus instructed him to tell his partners that "this is not Oral Roberts asking [for the money] but their Lord."

The project was completed, but has since been "shut down and sold to a group of investors for commercial development." And no cure for cancer was found. (Hand Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 1993, pg. 31 citing Russell Chandler, "Talked with Jesus, Evangelist Says", The Los Angeles Times (February 3, 1983), 3, 16 and Clark Morphew, "What's to become of Oral Roberts `City Of Faith?"` St. Paul Pioneer Press (27 June 1992); reprinted in the Christian News (July 20, 1992, 2).

Prosperity teachers are so committed to presenting a Jesus who wears a Rolex that they are willing to do whatever it takes to sell this myth to their parishioners. Oral Roberts, for example, wrote a book titled "How I Learned Jesus Was Not Poor". (Hank Hanegraaf, Christianity In Crisis, 1993, pg. 187).

On January 4, 1987, Roberts launched his most notable campaign to date. Roberts told his followers that if he did not raise a total of 8 million dollars by March, God was going to take his life . . . Comparing himself to the apostle Paul, Roberts begged not to let Satan defeat him. "God" he says, "clearly told me he needs me here on earth. And here's why Å because of all the ministries, this ministry is the only one God has on this earth that owns a medical school."

Some time later, Oral's son, Richard, took pen in hand to warn of his father's impending doom. Without "the additional $4,500.000", explains Richard, "God will not extend Dad's life" He then pleads, "Partner, we cannot let this man of God die.. There is no reason for him to die". After sternly warning, "IF YOU NEGLECT TO PAY ATTENTION . . . then Satan will take advantage and hit you with bad things and you will wish that 1985 had never come".

Roberts closed his letter with a hard sell. Sending a seed-faith gift will not only enable you to "STOP SATAN IN HIS HATE TO BRING YOU DOWN," it will also "help you get your hundredfold return." (Roberts raised the money and did not die.) (Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis, 1993, pg. 196-198).

Jesus, allegedly, instructed Robert's partners to take a picture of Oral and Richard (Roberts) "AND HOLD IT OVER the prayer sheet and your Seed-Faith gift so that the shadow of the picture COVERS THE ENTIRE SHEET." According to Jesus, this "becomes the point of contact for you to loose your faith." (Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In crisis, 1993,pg. 204 citing oral and Richard Roberts, direct-mail letter (August 1984), 2-3 capitalization in original).

Robert Tilton

Being poor is a sin. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/2/90). Forget your church. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 3/4/91). The only time people were poor in the Bible is when they were under a curse. (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/2/90). Do not say "Lord if it be thy will". (Robert Tilton, Success in Life, recorded 12/14/91).

When ABC profiled Tilton his Success-N-Life broadcast was in all 235 U.S. markets, buying 5,000 hours per month of air time, and pulling in at least $84 million per year. Tilton's distinctive pitch was the $1,000 "vow of faith," for which he promised innumerable miracles and blessings from God. He also sent mountains of sanctified trinkets to his mailing list, promising to personally touch and pray over such items if they were returned with a donation.

Then Prime Time revealed that thousands of Tilton-bound prayer requests had been dumped in the trash behind his Tulsa bank Ä with the money gone and no sign that he had ever laid a finger on them. His ministry collapsed. Now nearly three years later, Tilton is completely off the air. He divorced his wife, Marte, and sold both his waterfront mansions in Florida and his 12,000 square-foot Dallas "parsonage."

Sunday attendance at his once-thriving Word of Faith Family Church has dropped from some 5,000 members to an average of 320. Tilton laid off 70 percent of his Dallas staff, leaving 32 at a ministry that once employed over 800. Prime Time unleased a legal storm, and Tilton has been on the receiving end of more than 10 lawsuits and assorted government investigations.

On March 16 a judge dismissed Tilton's civil-rights suit against ABC-TV, Diane Sawyer, and other perceived Tilton enemies (he later refiled, repositioning it as a federal racketeering suit). On April 21 a Dallas jury ordered Tilton to pay $1.5 million to former supporters Vivian and Mike Elliott of Tamps, Florida for fraud, intentional inflection of emotional distress, and conspiracy. Tilton is desperately attempting a comeback from the bottom up as an itinerant evangelist, visiting small, obscure churches that still support him. (Christian Research Institute)

Fred Price

You can have what you say. (Fred Price, Praise the Lord (TBN), 9/21/90). You can't glorify God if you are sick. (Fred Price, Is God Glorified Through Sickness?, Tape #FP605). Man has made God violate His own word. Have a "Rolls Royce" Faith. (Fred Price, Praise the Lord (TBN), 9/21/90).

God has displeasure in poverty. (Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, recorded 11/16/90). Jesus and the disciples were rich, only rich people could take off for 3.5 years. (Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, recorded 11/23/90).

Yes! You are in control! So, of man has control, who no longer has it? God. (Fred Price, "Prayer: Do You Know What Prayer Is . . . and How to Pray?," The Word Study Bible, 1990, p. 1178).

"Jesus was rich and that He left us with an example to follow. That is why Fred drives a Rolls Royce; he is following Jesus' example! (Fred Price, An Examination of The Word-Faith Movement, Richard J. Vincent, 1991).

How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right? How can you glorify God? How can He get glory when your body doesn't even work? What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside a body where He can't see out through the windows and He can't hear with the ears? What makes you think the Holy wants to live inside of a physical body where the limbs and the organs and the cells do not function right? And what makes you think He wants to live in a temple where He can't see out of the eyes, and He can't walk with the feet, and He can't move with the hand? The only eyes that he has that are in the earth realm are the eyes that are in the body. If He can't see out of them then God's gonna be limited. (Frederick K.C. Price, "Is God Glorified Through Sickness?" [Los Angeles: Crenshaw Christian Center, n.d.], audiotape #FP605)

Marilyn Hickey

TBN Televangelist and often one of the guest speakers at International Charismatic Bible Ministries (ICBM) conferences. Marilyn Hickey, much like Tilton, employs a broad range of tactics to manipulate followers into sending her money. Among her many ploys are anointed prayer cloths, ceremonial breastplates, and ropes that can be used as points of contact.

In one of her appeal letters, Hickey promises she will slip into a ceremonial breastplate, "press your prayer request to my heart," and "place your requests on my shoulders" Ä all for a suggested donation. (Marilyn Hickey Ministries direct-mail piece, on file at CRI)

For the most part, Hickey's tricks and teachings are recycled from other prosperity peddlers like Tilton, Magin, and Copeland. Her message is peppered with such Faith jargon as "the God-kind of faith," "confession brings possession," and "receiving follows giving." (From numerous TBN shows)

Marilyn Hickey, chairman of the board of regents of Oral Roberts University and author of "God's Seven Keys To Make You Rich", was mightily touched by Rodney Howard-Browne in Lakeland, Florida. Hickey who dispenses miracle prayer cloths and demonstrates how Christians can create wealth b speaking to their wallets got extraordinarily excited about the laughter in Lakeland (A Rodney Howard-Browne meeting).

Hickey's life and that of her daughter Sara were "dramatically changed" as she "spent the entire time on the floor laughing". (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997 citing Charles and Frances Hunter, "Holy Laughter" [Kingwood, TX: Hunter Books, 1994], 35-36)

"What do you need? Start creating it. Start speaking about it. Start speaking it into being. Speak to your billfold. Say, "You big, thick billfold full of money." Speak to your checkbook. Say, "You, checkbook, you. You've never been so prosperous since I owned you. You're just jammed full of money." (Marilyn Hickey, "Claim Your Miracles" [Denver: Marilyn Hickey Ministries, n.d.], audiotape #186, side 2)

Marilyn Hickey was at Trinity Music City. She had people hold their hands palm side up and had the audience say, "there are miracles in my hands." Marilyn helped solidify that the manifestations of miracles are in the hands of the people with the cry, "Don't give up until you get your manifestation." (E- mail from Ed Tarkowski, Wednesday, July 23, 1997, 22:47:20)

BEWARE OF BENNY HINN AND HIS CROWD!!!